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People of Cornwall. King and council. The people request remedy concerning the collection...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/186

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This record is about the People of Cornwall. King and council. The people request remedy concerning the collection... dating from [1321-1322] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/4/186
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
People of Cornwall.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people request remedy concerning the collection of corn and wine by Archdeacon for the use of the king within the country. They show that whereas he had a commission from the king to take the corn and wine, he has resorted to attaching the people of the country for their corn despite there being a shortage of wheat, and has taken wine, all without offering payment or showing his commission. He has also appointed his own bailiffs and threatened the people to the scandal of the king.
Nature of endorsement
Thomas is to be commanded by a writ containing the force of this petition, that he is not to go beyond the form of his commission, and if he has done anything against the form of the commission then he is to make redress, so that the king hears no further complaints. And if he does not make redress for things that he has done beyond the form of his commission then the king will make an example of him.
Places mentioned
Cornwall.
People mentioned
Thomas le Ercedekne (Archdeacon).
Note
The petition dates to 1321-1322 as is noted in the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.387.
Related material

For a duplicate of this petition differently endorsed see SC 8/99/4921

For an earlier petition by Archdeacon see SC 8/1/50

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1667
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.387a-b (no.3) (full edition of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 3 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060306/

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